Our panel discusses the benefits of gathering for an annual holiday meal. Traditions and rituals give us a sense of identity and closeness with those we love – and come with mental and physical health benefits too.

Family dinners can whet children’s appetites for reading.
Family via www.shutterstock.com.September 17, 2015

As a family therapist, I often have the impulse to tell families to go home and have dinner together rather than spending an hour with me. And 20 years of research in North America, Europe and Australia…

Across the West this year, civilization will fall, as one by one, Christmas dinners collapse into war by other means.
Steve McFarlandDecember 22, 2011